
We see enormous differences across countries.

If you are interested in the development over time you can simply click on the country in the map (or switch to the Chart-tab at the bottom of the visualization). So one important way to understand if countries are testing sufficiently is to ask: What share of the tests confirm a case? What is the positive rate? This is what the map here shows. To be able to properly monitor the spread of the virus, countries with more widespread outbreaks need to do more testing. Italy: Daily confirmed deaths: how do they compare to other countries? → We provide more detail on these three points in our page on Deaths from COVID-19. Since reporting can vary significantly from day to day – irrespectively of any actual variation of deaths – it is helpful to view the seven-day rolling average of the daily figures as we do in the chart here.


This chart shows the number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths per day.
